This gallery showcases some of the wonderful costumes in our Performing Arts Collection. You can currently see these costumes (and many, many more!) on display at Arts Centre Melbourne in the free exhibition, All That Glitters. This exhibition celebrates the vision behind these costumes, the creativity and skill of those who created them, and the show-stopping performances that brought them to life.
All That Glitters will be on display in Gallery 1 until 23 February 2014.
Costume worn by Kylie Minogue in Kylie Showgirl: Homecoming Tour, 2006. Designed by John Galliano. Gift of Kylie Minogue, 2008. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Costume worn by a chorus member in Camelot, J.C. Williamson Theatres Ltd, 1963. Designed by John Truscott. Purchased, 2013. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Coat worn by Jeanette Cronin as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bell Shakespeare Company, 2000. Designed by Sue Field. Gift of Bell Shakespeare Company, 2001. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Coat worn by a member of the chorus in My Fair Lady, J.C. Williamson Theatres Ltd, 1959. Designed by Cecil Beaton. Realised by ‘Henry’ J.C.W. Modes. Purchased, 2005. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Cloak worn by Dame Nellie Melba as Elsa in Lohengrin, c. 1891. Designed by Jean-Phillipe Worth. Gift of Pamela, Lady Vestey, 1977. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Costume worn by Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, 2006. Designed by Roger Kirk. Gift of BFO Arena Pty Ltd, 2009. Donated in memory of Ben Gannon. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Costume worn by Suzanne Steele as Countess Helene Bezukhova in War and Peace, The Australian Opera, 1973. Designed Tom Lingwood. Realised by The Australian Opera Wardrobe Department. The Estate of Suzanne Steele, gift of Pat Oswald and Margaret Toyne, 1987. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Costume worn by Gertrude Johnson as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, British National Opera Company, 1922. Designer unknown. Gift of the Australian National Theatre, 1979. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Tutu worn by Marilyn Jones in Ballet Imperial, The Australian Ballet, 1967. Designed by Kenneth Rowell. Gift of The Australian Ballet, 2003. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Costume worn by Dame Edna Everage in Tears Before Bedtime, 1985. Designed by Bill Goodwin. Gift of Barry Humphries, 1989. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
Cloak worn by John Nobbs as Banquo in The Chronicle of Macbeth, Playbox Theatre, 1992. Designed by Tadashi Suzuki. Gift of the Playbox Theatre, 1997. Arts Centre Melbourne, Performing Arts Collection. Photograph by Jeremy Dillon.
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